Wang Jing: Hinduist Nationalist/Religious Period In India: New Strategies By of Parliamentary Communists & Naxalitea Communists

January 2024

Since 2014, the combination of Hindu right-wing politics and neoliberalism has produced a specific neoliberal model. This new model is not only a continuation of neo-liberalization in India, but also a forced adjustment of neoliberalism to fit the time and place. The Indian left regards it as a variant of global neoliberalism and names it “Hindu-ness neoliberalism”. The salient feature of this new model is the rapid advancement of the neoliberal agenda within a totalitarian political framework cohesive from the Hindu caste order.

So far, “Made in India” is far from achieving the goal of manufacturing GDP accounting for 25%, and the number of new jobs is also significantly lower than the expected target. Due to the lack of international competitiveness of local Indian companies in terms of technology and efficiency, it is difficult for foreign companies to use India as an export processing base. During the first term of the Bharatiya Janata Party government, the biggest achievement of “Made in India” was the shift to domestic manufacturing of mobile phones driven by the PMP plan, and this shift was mainly driven by Chinese companies such as Xiaomi.

Radical neoliberal practices have not been successful in restoring the conditions for capital accumulation, but they have achieved great success in restructuring and restoring the rights of monopoly elites. According to research by French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel, the gap between rich and poor in India has reached a record high since 1922 since 2015. According to a report by Oxfam, wealth inequality in India has worsened sharply in recent years. In 2016, 1% of the population owned 58% of the wealth; in 2017, 1% of the population owned 73% of the wealth. Not only that, the gap is still widening. The Pew Research Center believes that the number of poor people in India will increase by 74 million in 2021 alone. According to the newly released Global Hunger Index in 2022, India’s hunger index is 29.1, which is worse than 28.2 in 2014 (the larger the value, the higher the degree of hunger), ranking 107th among 121 countries (the hunger problem is not significant) country is not included in the ranking). In South Asia, the only country with a higher hunger index than India is war-torn Afghanistan, which ranks 109th. In addition, the number of malnourished people in India is as high as 190 million, making it the country with the largest number of malnourished people in the world.

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